France: Barton: 'I don't make investment wines'
France: Barton: 'I don't make investment wines'
Dec 5, 2011 6
(Decanter) - Anthony Barton of Chateau Leoville-Barton has vigorously defended his pricing policy, saying he will not make ‘investment wines’ like many of his neighbors. Speaking exclusively to Decanter, Anthony Barton suggests that many Bordeaux properties make wine simply for investment.
‘Rightly or wrongly, my idea has always been that wine is made to be drunk,’ the owner of Chateau Leoville-Barton and its sister property Langoa-Barton tells Margaret Rand in the January 2012 issue of the magazine.
‘The price should be what suits the people who buy and drink it. Higher-priced wines are sold for investment. Some châteaux only make investment wines; they’re exclusively speculative, and there’s a lot out there.’
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